There has been an explosion in lawyer matching and find-a-lawyer sites over the last year, most of them focused on the consumer market.

Given its potential scale, the investment community has shown more interest in the retail market, rather than products aimed at larger law firms, although it’s inevitable that some of the technology will seep through into the business-to-business world.

There’s far too many to mention, but some of the legal directory developments over the last year: